Saturday Open Thread

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I will be taping "Huet" over my "Kolzig" jersey for Tuesday's game. He was a wall on skates tonight!

Kozlov seems to be playing better with every game down the stretch. Have to love that.

Hey Islanders...You SUCK!!! You blow a 2 goal lead, then can't score with 4 minutes in OT and fail to get one goal in the SO. At least TB won and now we really have something to look forward to on Tuesday. I can't wait. The atmosphere will be electric!

NYI suck, I mean, 4 minute pps in OT???? Grr. TB, you have proved that you will still work your hardest to knock teams out of the playoffs. I commend you for that tonight, but please go back to sucking when we play you. Awesome game to watch, finally a game where by the end my heart was in a normal-ish heart beat range. Sheesh, cardic caps. GOOD WIN, obviously the stars are against us but KEEP WINNING!!!!!!!!

You know, with the crap showing by Ottawa and the way they've played of late, I think the Caps' slim chances to get in may rest with the Sens.You've got to love Halpy getting the GWG which happens to help the Caps....

starting to think the Southeast slot is the only way we can make it in.

If we win the Tuesday Carolina game, we are dead even, points wise, with them. Then it becomes best record over the next two games, with the tie going to Carolina. We need Tampa to play spoiler AGAIN, basically.

shite.

p.s. Fedorov has been such a great addition. Actually, every trade dealine pickup has been stellar, IMO.

This stretch run is taking a lot outta me, the hoping and waiting and watching game. (You shoulda heard the wail that left my lips when I saw that Boston/Ottawa result. ARGGGGGHHH. Jez.)

I wonder: what is the effect of our relentless footsteps on the minds of Canes? They will be in major desperation hang-on-by-your-fingernails mode this week.

Here's desperately hoping that they are also afraid.

from the N-O: "The Canes went into the evening with a chance to clinch the Southeast Division title. Instead, they now face what may be a winner-take-all showdown with the Capitals in Washington on Tuesday."

Could they have really clinched with a win last night? Is Tuesday really winner-take-all for the division?

Anyone see that Buffalo-Boston game? Buffalo had some good chances to win it in regulation but ended up winning in OT. Now Boston & Philly are all tied at 91 points with 3 games left. NYR have 91 and 4 games (4 tough games) and Ottawa has 92 and 3 tough games. CRAZY

If we finish tied with the same numbers of points as another team, the first tiebreaker is the total number of games won. That's a pretty easy one to figure out...

The second tiebreaker is the total number of points gained in the head-to-head match ups in the regular season between the teams tied. If we beat Carolina on Tuesday night, we will have split the season series with Carolina, Boston, & Philly. HOWEVER, we had overtimes wins against all 3 of these teams, so all 3 of these teams got an extra point, and therefore all 3 of these teams earned more points against us in the regular season than we earned against them.....

It stinks...

Oh well, let's just win out our games and have Carolina lose 2 out of 3, and then we will win the Division and be the 3rd seed!!

Who knows, maybe the Rangers will falter and we could squeak by them....

Well, if we win out, our chances are pretty good, unless everyone else does. But I know at least boston and ottawa end up playing each other, so they can't both win out. best (worst) they can do is go into OT...

We'll just have to see. Caps MUST win out, though, or it's pretty much over, I think. :(

We have the tiebreakers over pretty much every team BUT Carolina, due to wins. Note that we're tied or 1 or 2 behind most teams in wins, with less points. To catch them, you need to win, not OTL, so that tiebreaker is essentially ours.